Quotes About Influence

I love Florida Georgia Line. I love 'Round Here.' So if a fan wants to listen to that, and if a fan that wasn't listening to country music before is listening to 'Cruise' on Pandora, and after that a song by George Jones comes on, they may have never heard George Jones before. I think it's a good thing for the genre.

The Pandora's box of unholiness is attempting to sing anything that Freddie Mercury ever sang.

If I panic, everyone else panics.

I'm so passionate about Panic! at the Disco and Brendon Urie. I'm obsessed with him.

When Mary arrived, I felt a mixture of emotions, including panic and overwhelming love. I felt a great sense of responsibility, not just towards my child but also towards her father. There have been many influences on my life, but that thing of finally becoming a family person was the greatest.

So, yeah, if I could play anyone, I think it would be Black Panther.

Grace Jones was an influence, because I was like, 'These shoulders! These pants! Girls can wear pants and be awesome.' That's something I definitely embody.

When we just hang around, our pants are always sagging.

The same kids listening to Papa Roach will listen to an Xzibit CD.

The paparazzi and the press have given me a voice. No matter how I got the voice, it's there.

A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

My plan for 'The New York Times,' if I get the deal, will be putting the paper on every newsstand across the country and making 'The Times' accessible to every Chinese household. China is such a big market and is too big to miss.

Everybody you see around me, they're kings. Every last one of them. I ain't the only one that got paper.

I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.

The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.

The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.

In 1981, we opened Felidia, and the newspapers, the city papers, the big timers came, and I got invited on the 'Today Show' and so on. A lot of food luminaries would come to Felidia - Julia Child, James Beard, they all came.

The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders.

In an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis of their content. This might be true. But lots of other stuff can have an influence.

Where I grew up, people obviously knew my dad because it's a small place and he was the top player for Swinton - they'd go and watch him play, see him in the papers, so they knew he was black.

You have to create public activist pressure on papers like the 'New York Times' to keep them accountable.

There are innumerable television channels and papers, all very aggressive and not willing to take no for an answer.

You can't really take it for granted that people listen to your music. I want to write songs that are on par, at least in my mind, with the ones I've loved for my whole life and that will be around forever.

I see fashion as going on par with all the other cultural institutions here. Ballet, theater, opera - I don't see fashion differently.